Answer:
0.175 m/s²
Explanation:
Given:
v₀ = 35 m/s
v = 42 m/s
t = 40 s
Find: a
v = at + v₀
42 m/s = a (40 s) + 35 m/s
a = 0.175 m/s²
If a car crashes into another car like this, the wreck should go nowhere. Besides this being an unrealistic question, the physics of it would look like this:
Momentum before and after the collision is conserved.
Momentum before the collision:
p = m * v = 50000kg * 24m/s + 55000kg * 0m/s = 50000kg * 24m/s
Momentum after the collision:
p = m * v = (50000kg + 55000kg) * v
Setting both momenta equal:
50000kg * 24m/s = (50000kg + 55000kg) * v
Solving for the velocity v:
v = 50000kg * 24m/s/(50000kg + 55000kg) = 11,43m/s
The formula for momentum is mass times velocity. Simply, we just multiply the given values:
p = mv
p = 40 kg x 4 m/s
p = 160 kg m/s
Other units for momentum is N s.
p = 160 N s
